A review of XLConnect (0.1-9)
The package I've been waiting for
I get a lot of excel files when consulting, and I always struggled to get them in R. With XLConnect I didn’t experience any problems to date, regardless of EXCEL formatting, use of formulas and so on.
I also tried to create EXCEL sheets using the package, but the documentation isn’t always that clear and I didn’t get much further than using the basic functionality. An updated vignette with code that can be copy-pasted (please get rid of those > signs!!!) would be marvellous.
But all in all, this is the first package ever that makes working with Excel files in R go smoothly. Thank you for that.
